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The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace
The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace containing something of the nature of the covenant of works, the sovereignty of God, the extent of the death of Christ ... the covenant of grace ... of surety or redemption between the by Samuel Rutherford ...The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace containing something of the nature of the covenant of works, the soveraignty of God, the extent of the death of Christ ... the covenant of grace ... of surety or redemption between the by Samuel Rutherford ...
Edinburgh: printed by Andro Anderson for Robert Brown, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
8. Of such is the Kingdom of God, of such in Covenant relation is the Kingdom of God, of such subjects. For if Christs reason be, of such for humility, meekness, want of malice, and envy, as 1 Pet. 2.1, 2, 3. Math. 18. Psal. 131.1, 2▪ is the Kingdom of God: he must mean by the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Glory and the triumphing Church, this sense is refused by Anabaptists. 2. The Infants of Pagans and of all men, by nature, within and without the Church are as well marked resemblances of converts, as they. And we must say that Christ would have taken ⟨p. 100⟩[…] ⟨p. 101⟩[…] ⟨p. 102⟩in his arms, and blessed all the Pagan Infants, and when they grow to age they should be for no fault, but for age only, Excommunicate from the blessing, for Pagan Infants as well resemble humility and harmlessness (if only the personal qualifications of converts, and heart-converts, not the Covenant and Church-holiness of visible Professors,1 be here meant) as Infants within the Visible Church.
8. Of such is the Kingdome of God, of such in Covenant relation is the Kingdome of God, of such subjects. For if Christs reason be, of such for humilitie, meeknesse, want of malice, and invy, as 1 Pet. 2.1, 2, 3. Math. 18. Psal. 131.1, 2▪ is the Kingdome of God: he must mean by the Kingdome of God, the Kingdome of Glory and the triumphing Church, this sense is refused by Anabaptists. 2. The Infants of Pagans and of all men, by nature, within and without the Church are as well marked resemblances of converts, as they. And we must say that Christ would have taken